{"product_id":"john-dos-passoss-transatlantic-chronicling-critical-essays-on-the-interwar-years-9781621907138","title":"John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I never could keep the world properly divided into gods and demons for very long,” wrote John Dos Passos, whose predilection toward nuance and tolerance brought him to see himself as a “chronicler”: a writer who might portray political situations and characters but would not deliberately lead the reader to a predetermined conclusion. Privileging the tangible over the ideological, Dos Passos’s writing between the two World Wars reveals the enormous human costs of modern warfare and ensuing political upheavals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wide-ranging and engaging collection of essays explores the work of Dos Passos during a time that challenged writers to find new ways to understand and render the unfolding of history. Taking their foci from a variety of disciplines, including fashion, theater, and travel writing, the contributors extend the scholarship on Dos Passos beyond his best-known \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy. Including scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the volume takes on such topics as how writers should position their labor in relation to that of blue-collar workers and how Dos Passos’s views of Europe changed from fascination to disillusionment. Examinations of the Modernist’s \u003ci\u003eAdventures of a Young Man, Manhattan Transfer\u003c\/i\u003e, and “The Republic of Honest Men” increase our understanding of the work of a complicated figure in American literature, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving technology, growing religious skepticism, and political turmoil in the wake of World War I.","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041758642519,"sku":"9781621907138","price":52.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781621907138.jpg?v=1750951566","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/john-dos-passoss-transatlantic-chronicling-critical-essays-on-the-interwar-years-9781621907138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}